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September 01, 2008

Fashionably Late

I am so, so late to this whole freezer paper stenciling thing, but I'm so glad I got here eventually. My friend is having a baby, and I wanted to make something for the little guy. I certainly didn't have enough time to make a quilt, which I really wanted to do, so I decided on something more simple - decorated onesies.

I looked up a bunch of tutorials, including this one on Angry Chicken. Then I poked around the blogs a bit and found some inspiration here and here. Then I busted out the exacto and got to work.

It was about a jillion degrees in my apartment while I was trying to cut out the tiny details of each picture, but I was determined to get it done. I tried out the blue electric saw first, because I thought there was no way the freezer paper would hold those tiny details. For some reason I thought I would be less disappointed if it failed on the first try rather than the last. Luckily, I didn't have to test that theory because it turned out great on the first try.

It was so satisfying to peel up the paper and find a perfect little image each time. It makes me want to do many, many more. In fact, I just bought a new shirt yesterday for myself that I'm going to need to stencil.

The other great thing about this project is that it looks way more complicated than it actually is. The onesies got a good reaction at the baby shower. And while I really wanted to bask in all that crafting glory, I had to admit that it was really quite simple to do.